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...trouble that can flow from the defeat of EDC. In Schleswig-Holstein, the poorest and most discontented of West Germany's nine states, Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic coalition suffered a setback at the polls. Where Adenauer got 47% of the vote last year, his slate last week got only 32%, a drop of 250,000 votes. The opposition Social Democrats, who got 26.5% of the vote last time, actually outdrew the Christian Democrats by 11,000 votes...
...nominations than Democrats under the old law, although Democrats have a 3-2 edge in registrations. This time Democrats campaigned hard. Their best slogan: "Don't let two million Republicans fool three million Democrats." For the first time in 40 years Democrats were able to nominate a full slate of their own candidates...
...knew the result three days earlier (when it was also leaked to the press), wasted no time taking over the world's second biggest railroad. Less than an hour after the official count was announced, Young and Mrs. Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, a member of his directors' slate and co-owner of the Reader's Digest, marched out of his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building and walked the three blocks to the Park Avenue offices of the Central. There his group of directors, who had been asked to stand by were gathered in the Central...
...politically, the Class savored the campaigning slogans of thirty-five who aimed for high office on the Dormitory Committee. On November 11, a football dominated slate of 12 were elected: B. H. Beal, E. T. Putnam, James Lawrence, E. W. Sexton, C. M. Churchill, S. G. Hardy, T. G. Moore, A. E. French, R. H. O'Connell, G. H, Norris, F. W. Farnsworth, and C. B. Carnegie...
...French Red Cross helicopter clattered out of a slate-grey sky, and put down at Dienbienphu. Two khaki-clad officers and an angular French civilian stepped gingerly down to the muddy, shell-torn airstrip, and a Communist liaison officer came forward to greet them. "You are one hour ahead of schedule, messieurs," said the Communist. "You should know that our Democratic Republic's time is one hour behind your own. Now, if you will please follow me." The French had come back to Dienbienphu to settle terms for evacuating their 1,500 wounded, as vouchsafed by the Communists...